In the history of art, Sesshū Tōyō is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Sesshū Tōyō as Japanese artist (1420-1506).
Sesshū Tōyō was born at Bitchū Province in 1420. His recorded nationality is Japan.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as buddhist monk and painter.
Among his best-known works are Haboku sansui, Landscape of the Four Seasons and Autumn and Winter Landscapes. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Japan shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Sesshū Tōyō died in 1506, aged 86. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Haboku sansui
- Notable work: Landscape of the Four Seasons
- Notable work: Autumn and Winter Landscapes
- Notable work: Landscape by Sesshū
